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Open AccessFine-grained precise-bone age assessment by integrating prior knowledge and recursive feature pyramid network
Bone age assessment (BAA) evaluates individual skeletal maturity by comparing the characteristics of skeletal development to the standard in a specific population. The X-ray image examination for bone age is t...
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Open AccessPalpation localization of radial artery based on 3-dimensional convolutional neural networks
Palpation localization is essential for detecting physiological parameters of the radial artery for pulse diagnosis of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Detecting signal or applying pressure at the wrong loc...
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Open AccessA self-adaptive single underwater image restoration algorithm for improving graphic quality
A high-quality underwater image is essential to many industrial and academic applications in the field of image processing and analysis. Unfortunately, underwater images frequently demonstrate poor visual qual...
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Open AccessResearch on establishing numerical model of geo material based on CT image analysis
Geotechnical engineering material is a kind of heterogeneous composite material. The stone, mineral, gravel, hole, and crack contained in it have different physical and mechanical properties, and their respons...
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Open AccessAge estimation algorithm of facial images based on multi-label sorting
Multi-label sorting learning has been successful in many fields. It can not only express the complex semantic information of learning objects, but also present good generalization ability in dealing with compl...
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Open AccessA two-stage algorithm for the early detection of zero-quantized discrete cosine transform coefficients in High Efficiency Video Coding
For High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) using block-based prediction, the discrete cosine transform (DCT), and quantization, a large number of DCT coefficients in a transform block (TB) are commonly found to b...
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Open AccessLow storage space for compressive sensing: semi-tensor product approach
Random measurement matrices play a critical role in successful recovery with the compressive sensing (CS) framework. However, due to its randomly generated elements, these matrices require massive amounts of s...
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Open AccessIntegrating clustering with level set method for piecewise constant Mumford-Shah model
In the paper, we present an efficient method to solve the piecewise constant Mumford-Shah (M-S) model for two-phase image segmentation within the level set framework. A clustering algorithm is used to find app...
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Open AccessVariational segmentation model for images with intensity inhomogeneity and Poisson noise
In this paper, we propose a variational segmentation model to deal with intensity inhomogeneity and Poisson noise. An energy functional is first proposed, which uses a data-fidelity term deduced from Poisson d...
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Open AccessFace Recognition from Still Images to Video Sequences: A Local-Feature-Based Framework
Although automatic faces recognition has shown success for high-quality images under controlled conditions, for video-based recognition it is hard to attain similar levels of performance. We describe in this p...
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Erratum to: Parabolic Motion-Vector Re-estimation Algorithm for Compressed Video Downscaling
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Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Multi-Core Enabled Multimedia Applications & Architectures